The Zebra striped network file system Export

@article{citeulike:1513011, abstract = {Zebra is a network file system that increases throughput by striping the file data across multiple servers. Rather than striping each file separately, Zebra forms all the new data from each client into a single stream, which it then stripes using an approach similar to a log-structured file system. This provides high performance for writes of small files as well as for reads and writes of large files. Zebra also writes parity information in each stripe in the style of RAID disk arrays; this increases storage costs slightly, but allows the system to continue operation while a single storage server is unavailable. A prototype implementation of Zebra, built in the Sprite operating system, provides 4\–5 times the throughput of the standard Sprite file system or NFS for large files and a 15\–300\% improvement for writing small files.}, address = {New York, NY, USA}, author = {Hartman, John H. and Ousterhout, John K.}, citeulike-article-id = {1513011}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=210131}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/210126.210131}, doi = {10.1145/210126.210131}, issn = {0734-2071}, journal = {ACM Trans. Comput. Syst.}, keywords = {filesystem, zebra}, month = {August}, number = {3}, pages = {274--310}, posted-at = {2009-11-09 16:24:54}, priority = {2}, publisher = {ACM}, title = {The Zebra striped network file system}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/210126.210131}, volume = {13}, year = {1995} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:1513011 L3 - citeulike-article-id:1513011 N2 - Zebra is a network file system that increases throughput by striping the file data across multiple servers. Rather than striping each file separately, Zebra forms all the new data from each client into a single stream, which it then stripes using an approach similar to a log-structured file system. This provides high performance for writes of small files as well as for reads and writes of large files. Zebra also writes parity information in each stripe in the style of RAID disk arrays; this increases storage costs slightly, but allows the system to continue operation while a single storage server is unavailable. A prototype implementation of Zebra, built in the Sprite operating system, provides 4–5 times the throughput of the standard Sprite file system or NFS for large files and a 15–300% improvement for writing small files. IS - 3 JF - ACM Trans. Comput. Syst. SN - 0734-2071 AD - New York, NY, USA EP - 310 TI - The Zebra striped network file system PB - ACM VL - 13 SP - 274 KW - filesystem KW - zebra AU - Hartman, John AU - Ousterhout, John PY - 1995/08// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/210126.210131 ER -